Identifier: christmascarol00dick2 (find matches)
Title: A Christmas carol
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Coburn, Frederick Simpson
Subjects: Christmas stories Misers
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the door, clashing their wickerbaskets wildly, and left their purchases uponthe counter, and came running back to fetchthem, and committed hundreds of the likemistakes in the best humour possible ; whilethe Grocer and his people were so frank andfresh that the polished hearts with which theyfastened their aprons behind might have beentheir own, worn outside for general inspec-tion, and for Christmas daws to peck at ifthey chose. But soon the steeples called good people all,to church and chapel, and away they came,flocking through the streets in their bestclothes, and with their gayest faces. And atthe same time there emerged from scores ofbye-streets, lanes, and nameless turnings, in-numerable people, carrying their dinners to the bakers shops. The sight of these poorrevellers appeared to interest the Spirit verymuch, for he stood with Scrooge beside himin a bakers doorway, and taking off the cov-ers as their bearers passed, sprinkled incenseon their dinners from his torch. And it was
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